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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Forget the 90s. What
about the 80s? Imamaura? Itami? Fukasaku? Tsukamoto Shinjya<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
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owner-<st1:PersonName w:st="on">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</st1:PersonName>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jesse Kalin<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 23, 2006
1:35 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: broad request for
suggestions: recent Japanese films</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>but I'm not <br>
aware of any films produced in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in the past 30 some years that <br>
are of comparable stature to the best of Mizoguchi, Ozu, Kurosawa, <br>
Kobayashi, et al.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>One has, of
course, to shift sensibilites for films of the 90s. Two suggestions: First,
Kitano's <u>Hana-bi</u> ("Fireworks"-1997) and <u>Sonatine</u>
(1993); and second (another target on the back?), two films of Miike: <u>Odishon</u>
("Audition"-1999), a horror/ghost film that matches anything from the
50s or 60s (and as beautiful as Kobayashi's <u>Kwaidan</u>), and <u>Visitor Q</u>
(2001), which matches the best of Oshima and, perhaps even more comparable,
Imamura.</span></font></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jesse Kalin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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